Most Powerful Pickups

[MEKer]

Opinions?

In simply terms of deliverable "power" to the amp which are

(1) the most "powerful" actives pups?
(2) the most "powerful" passive pups?

And why do you say so?

I suppose a good, solid luthier would have some respectable input as well.

 

[JAGGL3S]

EMG

 

[spaz21387]

delanos for passive. i love my passive delanos in my j bass sounds big and very stingray like

 

[bongomania]

Well, the hottest passive pups I've run across personally were in an older Yamaha BB bass, but the hottest ones I've read of are in the old G&L 1000 series.

 

[Marton]

I think the Seymour Duncan Quarter are pretty hot for passive pickups.

 

[Nedmundo]

Most powerful I've tried is the G&L MFD split-coil in my SB-2. After that, it's close between the MFD humbucker and the DiMarzio Model P.

 

[Bob C]

Well, of course I haven't tried them all, but I agree that most of the G&L's are pretty hot/loud.

 

[Tim Skaggs]

The hottest passive pu I've ever seen / heard are the Alumitone bass bars. The one I have has about the same output as my active Carvin LB75 with bass, treble, and mid tone controls wide open. I've only got one of them that I put in the neck position of my '93 T-Bird. I moved it to the bridge position after the first gig. It sounds absolutely fantastic in the bridge position. It has the typical honk of a soloed bridge pu, but still has tons of low end. That's why I took it out of the neck position; It was overpowering there.

 

[tom once dead]

Hottest pickups Ive used are the pickups in the Dean 2A ML. I couldn't run that thing full volume into any amp. My spector has less output than the dean with the volume on half.

 

[Rumblefisher]

Neodymium pickups have to be the most powerful magnetic pickups out there, no?

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[lug]

G&L MFD's in my experience.

 

[MarkusBass]

ChiSonics are hot!

 

[thetawaves]

Didn't Maverick do some, frankly, inanely overpowered actives?

Source: friend had his Ashdown pre-amp blow as a result.

 

[Robo Bass]

I like Barolini. They give me the growl when I want it, they also give me the silky smooth jazzy sound when I need it. I love my Elrick Bass.

 

[walterw]

In simply terms of deliverable "power" to the amp which are

(1) the most "powerful" actives pups?
(2) the most "powerful" passive pups?

pickups don't "deliver" power to the amp, if anything they "demand" power from the amp the stronger the signal they have.

it's like thinking that if you did exercises to make your gas pedal foot really strong you could get more horsepower out of your car.

any average bass pickup will have enough output to drive any average bass amp into full distortion if it's turned up loud enough.

 

[interstatejoe]

delanos for passive. i love my passive delanos in my j bass sounds big and very stingray like

+1
Delano for the win

 

[Number27]

the pickup in my Aria Probass II CSB-300 is def. the hottest pickup that i've played. probably about 3-4 times hotter than the pickups in my jazz.